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Jane Lazarre [1]

Listed as: 
Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
New York, NY
New York US
Email: 
janelazarre@hotmail.com
Bio: 

20th anniversary edition published by Duke University Press: Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons.
Forthcoming: essay in collection of writings by mothers of black sons edited by Professor George Yancy. Forthcoming from Duke University Press: The Communist and the Communist;s Daughter, a memoir. REcent publications, "Hoarding, A story" in Hamilton Stone Review. "Once White in America" in TomDispatch and widely reprinted. Have spoken and read my work in numerous colleges, universities, secondary schools, small reading groups, conferences.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
New York City
Raised in: 
New York City, NY
New York
Prizes won: 

NYFA for fiction
NEA for fiction
Meyerson Center for Human Rights
for work on whiteness/race.
University Award for Excellence in Teaching from the New School, Eugene Lang College.

What I'm reading now: 
The fire This Time by Ed. Jasmyn Ward
Poetry of C.K. Williams by C.K. Williams
The Return by Hisham Matar
Island by Alistair MacLeod
Known and STrange Things by Teju Cole
Prefers to work with: 
Teachers

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